Industrial Advisory Committee First Meeting Introductory

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• Industrial Advisory Committee First Meeting
  Introductory
• Systems Engineering Department
• College of Computer Sciences and Engineering
• King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
• Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• April 23, 2005

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Introduction

• The Department of Systems Engineering was
  founded in 1974 as one of the earliest
  departments at King Fahd University of petroleum
  and Minerals.
• The Industrial Advisory Committee was established
  in 2004 to help the department to successfully
  accomplish its mission and to continuously
  improve the quality of its graduates so as to
  meet current and future needs of the Kingdom in
  terms of highly qualified workforce.

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Industrial AdvisoryCommittee duties

• Give suggestions and recommendations that help
  the department in developing its programs .
• Strengthen the links and cooperation between the
  department and both the industrial and service
  institutions and create an awareness of the
  importance of this cooperation.
• Inform both industrial and service institutions
  about the academic programs of the department and
  their effectiveness in solving their technical
  and managerial problems.
• Link the department with its alumni
• Encourage industrial and service institutions to
  participate in the departments training and
  educational programs.
• Encourage industrial and service institutions to
  actively participate in summer and coop training
  programs and student projects.

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Degrees

• The department offers BS, MS and Ph.D.
  educational program with two options
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• Industrial Engineering
• Automation and Control.
• The two options are complementary to each other,
  and have a wide-scope range of applicability.

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Areas in Automation and Control

• Process Control
• Estimation and System Identification
• Signal processing and Speech Processing
• Instrumentation
• Robotics and Machine Intelligence
• Pattern Recognition and Image Processing
• Distributed Computer Control

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Automation and Control Tools

• Mathematical Modeling
• Computer Simulation
• Digital control

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Industrial Engineering

• The industrial engineering option is concerned
  with the design, optimization, installation, and
  improvement of integrated systems involving
  people, materials and equipment.
• Its objective is to utilize resources to produce
  goods and services in the most efficient way and
  with the best possible quality.

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Areas in Industrial Engineering

• Ø     Production planning and Control
• Ø     Quality planning and Control
• Ø     Maintenance Planning and Control
• Ø     Facility Layout and Location
• Ø     Human Factors Engineering
• Ø     Sequencing Scheduling
• Ø     Industrial Safety
• Ø     Reliability and Maintainability
• Ø     Inventory Planning and Control

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Industrial Engineering Tools

• Operations Research / Mathematical modeling
• Statistics
• Computer Simulation
• Work and Time Study

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Strengths of the Department

• One of the most established departments in KFUPM
• Strong links with international universities and
  research centers
• High standard academic programs
• Flexible program
• Wide range of expertise with high quality
  academics and researchers
• Well established alumni body
• Labs and facilities

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Weaknesses

• Weak links with industry
• Unknown to the local market
• Unclear identity of graduates
• Program weakness in design aspects

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Areas of Excellence

• Maintenance Planning
• Operations Research
• Quality Control
• Operational Strategic planning
• Process Control
• Instrumentation

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Maintenance Center

• Established in 2002
• Its objective is to serve the need for
  maintenance planning and Control in the local
  industry.
• It conducts research, development and
  consultation in the area of maintenance planning.
• Long experience in the area and links to
  international Centers.

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Things Done

• Issue 1
• Clearly define the identity of the department,
  the program, and the graduates
• A proposal for restructuring the Systems
  Engineering program is prepared and approved by
  the University Administration. The Systems
  Engineering Department will offer two independent
  programs one in Industrial and Systems
  Engineering, and the other in Automation and
  Control Systems Engineering. Therefore, the SE
  Department graduates will be clearly identified
  as Industrial Engineers or Automation
  Engineers. The two programs will be revised
  soon with input from many sources including the
  Industrial Advisory Committee.

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• Issue 2
• Quality of SE Graduates
• It pertains to communication skill of SE
  graduates. The University is addressing this
  issue globally, and currently developing a skill
  development program. Students will be required
  to acquire a minimum level of different
  communication skills before graduation.
• Regarding the lack of knowledge in Information
  Technology (IT), the department has initiated a
  course in ERP and developed a SAP Lab. The
  course is offered in the last two terms
  successfully. Other courses on Strategic
  Planning, Re-engineering, and Balance Score
  Cards are also introduced as Electives.

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• Issue 3
• Faculty Exposure to Industry
• The department Information Committee has been
  assigned to explore the possibility of summer
  faculty employment, including expatriate faculty,
  in local industries. The University is currently
  working on developing faculty programs with local
  industry similar to the one with Saudi Aramco.
  The expected benefits are yet to be seen in the
  near future.

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• Issue 4
• Effectiveness of Coop. Training Program
• The Coop. Guidelines have been revised recently
  by the department, focusing on the design
  element in Coop. projects in line with ABET
  requirement. However, the new guidelines makes
  the responsibility of Coop. students towards
  their industrial employer for cooperative work
  assignment more clear.

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• Issue 5
• Research Interaction with Industry
• The Department Information Committee was assigned
  to plan faculty visits to the local industry and
  explore the ways and means for strengthening the
  faculty role in solving local industrial
  problems. In this regard, a number of visits
  have already been made. Moreover, workshops like
  WISC, ERP, are organized to increase interaction
  with the industry. However, we still have to do
  more in this regard.

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New Program Content(Proposal)

• The ISE program in KFUPM adopts the systems
  approach for solving, analyzing and optimizing
  engineering systems using various IE tools. It
  focuses on quantitative methods while developing
  the basic computer and management skills.
• Justification
• Quantitative methods is the main strength of the
  current program with the existence of the highly
  qualified quantitative methods oriented faculty.
• The need of the market for IE graduates with
  management and computer skills.
• The global trend in the IE profession and IE
  academic programs.
• The existence of the control program in the
  department.

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• Program features
• Wide variety of electives in different areas of
  concentration.
• More elective courses on the expense of core
  courses (relative to the current program.
• Emphasis on modeling and design. (at least one
  core course in modeling and design in addition to
  course projects).
• Emphasis on personal skill such as communication,
  teamwork, leadership, , etc. through course
  projects.
• At least one core course on information system.
• At least one core course on accounting (or
  general course on management and accounting)
• At least one core computer control course.
• Areas of concentration
• In addition of a set of core courses in various
  areas students may concentrate their elective in
  one of the following areas.
• Productivity and work improvement (work study,
  Human factors, Safety, productivity,
  Reengineering, etc. )
• Applied Operations Research (Advanced Operations
  research, Optimization, Stochastic processes and
  Queuing, Advanced simulation, decision making, )
  
• Production and Quality control (Supply chain
  management, Advanced quality control, Information
  systems, )
• Reliability and maintenance (Reliability,
  maintenance, .)

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• Thank You